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1 day ago · Roanoke Colony ( / ˈroʊənoʊk / ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in America. The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared.
May 15, 2024 · Pilgrim Fathers, in American colonial history, settlers of Plymouth, Massachusetts, the first permanent colony in New England (1620). Initially referred to as the Old Comers and later the Forefathers, they did not become known as the Pilgrim Fathers until two centuries after their arrival.
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2 days ago · The London Company established the Colony of Virginia in 1607, the first permanently settled English colony on the continent. The Plymouth Company founded the Popham Colony on the Kennebec River, but it was short-lived.
2 days ago · The Pilgrims were separatist Puritans who fled persecution in England, first to the Netherlands and ultimately to Plymouth Plantation in 1620. Over the following 20 years, people fleeing persecution from King Charles I settled most of New England .
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May 19, 2024 · In 1620, the Pilgrims set sail aboard the Mayflower, a small ship bound for the New World. After a treacherous journey lasting 66 days, they arrived at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on November 21, 1620. This historic voyage marked the beginning of a new chapter in American history. Image from Adobe Stock.
May 15, 2024 · Thomas Morton was a contrarian and nonconformist businessman and an early British settler in colonial America. He authored New English Canaan, which ridiculed the strict religious tenets of the Pilgrims and the Puritans and became the first banned book in the United States.
May 13, 2024 · The first permanent settlement in North America was the English colony at Jamestown, in 1607, in what is now Virginia. John Smith and company had come to stay. The Pilgrims followed, in 1620, and set up a colony at Plymouth, in what is now Massachusetts.
